In the spring of 2020, I was set to take my first plane ride in many years, and attend a writers’ retreat on Whidbey Island. I got a call, from my sister, and a forwarded email from our cousin, saying that many elders were dying of a virus. “It’s bad, do not come here”, sheContinue reading “Throwback Film: ‘Trail Medicine’, Disability Justice Trail Running, and awkward comments”
Author Archives: Fern Moongaze
“Looking for Datura” in Querencia Spring 2024 Quarterly
One of my favorite poems, about one of my favorite flowers. An elegant ditch weed, a mesmerizing creature you feel staring at you. How much time I spent hunting for that sound, and that glow. In Querencia Press’s Spring 2024 Quarterly Anthology.
“ Daylight // Nightlight” in New Words Press
“Daylight // Nightlight” started out as an exphrasis of Aesop Rock’s tandem songs, “Daylight” and “Nightlight”, written deep in pandemic isolation, but working, schooling and writing online. The comfort I felt when beamed into each others’ homes via the magical zoom tube contrasted heavily with the realization that I would most likely never actually physicallyContinue reading ““ Daylight // Nightlight” in New Words Press”
“Memory Box” in Querencia Press’s Not Ghosts but Spirits V
Memory Box is about a relationship that passes over a desire for children, choosing instead to focus on holding memories, like deep secrets. I started this poem at Juan Morales’s workshop at the 2020 Jackson Hole Writers Conference, where we wrote about recent dreams. Shortly after, I traveled to the north end of the spitContinue reading ““Memory Box” in Querencia Press’s Not Ghosts but Spirits V”
Poetry for Palestine: On Mosab Abutoha’s Charge to Make Art Now
The beginning of a series on Mosab Abutoha’s charge to write Poetry for and about Palestine
Featured Reader at Cultivating Voices’ Pride Poetry March: Almost-Barfing at the Cusp of Birth
Last spring, I was graduating and finishing up my work at the Evergreen Writing Center. I spent much of the time curled up into a ball in my shed-office, like if I closed my eyes and held my breath *whatever* was waiting for me on the other side of graduation and my job ending– thatContinue reading “Featured Reader at Cultivating Voices’ Pride Poetry March: Almost-Barfing at the Cusp of Birth”
Only on Paper: Snag, in CPJ’s Poetry Corner
RSVP to a Snag Lightning hollowed you out death becoming you, the conductor, the container from the inside out, allowing yourself to hollow Offering the driest part of yourself, the almost-dead part of you—soft, crumbling, becoming fuel from the inside out. From there, you held us inside. Time was Depression Time— You can stayContinue reading “Only on Paper: Snag, in CPJ’s Poetry Corner”
On Writing at Work: Publishing Love– not Cops!– in the Library
Almost a year ago to date, I published this piece in the Cooper Point Journal. Here is a short essay on the little events that lead up to it and followed it, the many continued layers that our work lives within, and is borne from. A year ago, I was working for the Evergreen StateContinue reading “On Writing at Work: Publishing Love– not Cops!– in the Library”
Tree of Many Fruits # 2: Root Runners
Pfewff. Sickness. Heartbreak. The co-creative energies that sometimes sever, sometimes soothe. Through it all, this beauty emerged. It tastes like grief and a light in the sweet darkness. The edges of flowers are clear. Enjoy.
In-Program Zine! Tree of Many Fruits
Presenting! Tree of Many Fruits, vol 1. Collected works gleaned from the Fall 2022 Evergreen program, led by Miranda Mellis: Writing as Experimental and Ecological Practice. Tree of Many Fruits is anti-copyright, and free for download. If you would like a version that can be printed and assembled into a zine, follow this link toContinue reading “In-Program Zine! Tree of Many Fruits”
MoonLit Fern 